Quench Tank Inside the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor Mill

Taken August 2016

Rusted industrial rollers and metal sphere inside an abandoned ArcelorMittal steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana.
Rusted industrial rollers and metal sphere inside an abandoned ArcelorMittal steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana.

This wood staved quench tank sits inside a rolling mill building at the former Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago, Indiana, part of the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor long carbon plant. Rusted steel rollers feed into the tank, where hot bar stock would have been cooled during processing.

Taken August 2016

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